Feel free to add any highlights you heard or learned at the Summer Institute in CA.
Don't forget to check out all the links in Edmodo for some of the presentations and resources.
Sally Hampton, Author of ELA Common Core *There is about a 2 year gap between what HS students are expected to read and what Colleges expect. This gap was purposely created in 1962, but colleges never made a change in their expectations. For the next few years even your A and B students will be behind in reading because of the current gap. It will take a short while to get them to the level we need to them to be to be college ready.
*Steve Graham- did a study on the connection of reading and writing. The highest level of comprehension is writing about what you read! Don't ask a kid to tell you how the character feels or if you know a boy like that before you know if they comprehend the text.
*Learning to read challenging texts is like PT. At first it is challenging and you want to cheat on the exercises, but the therapist should not allow you to give up. You may to stay on an exercise longer, but you still push.
*The more we make things easier, the more we make an excuse for them to not be successful readers.
*Sometimes kids have to be pushed beyond their best to be able to do what is required! Just like athletes.
You may not give the best lesson, but it should be better than the last one you taught! Getting paid for what you know and how to do is not what keeps you employed. That was why you were hired. It is about a team of adults learning how to do what we ask kids to do everyday... Learn publicly! We ask kids to get in front of others at the board, get certificates or not, and be better than they were yesterday! Teachers should also be obligated/ responsible for making other teachers just as good as you (the best). The common core is about engagement and grit. More than just engagement with the teachers and student, but with task, text, world, etc. as well. Is repeatedly NOT walking away when "I don't
ge this!". Coaches of great athletes get this.
This work requires public acts of courage:
Saying all can learn
I will learn publicly
I dont have the knowledge of technology to do all this, but I can learn
Don't forget to check out all the links in Edmodo for some of the presentations and resources.
Sally Hampton, Author of ELA Common Core
*There is about a 2 year gap between what HS students are expected to read and what Colleges expect. This gap was purposely created in 1962, but colleges never made a change in their expectations. For the next few years even your A and B students will be behind in reading because of the current gap. It will take a short while to get them to the level we need to them to be to be college ready.
*Steve Graham- did a study on the connection of reading and writing. The highest level of comprehension is writing about what you read!
Don't ask a kid to tell you how the character feels or if you know a boy like that before you know if they comprehend the text.
*Learning to read challenging texts is like PT. At first it is challenging and you want to cheat on the exercises, but the therapist should not allow you to give up. You may to stay on an exercise longer, but you still push.
*The more we make things easier, the more we make an excuse for them to not be successful readers.
*Sometimes kids have to be pushed beyond their best to be able to do what is required! Just like athletes.
Reflections Day 1
John Deasy, LA Unified
You may not give the best lesson, but it should be better than the last one you taught! Getting paid for what you know and how to do is not what keeps you employed. That was why you were hired. It is about a team of adults learning how to do what we ask kids to do everyday... Learn publicly! We ask kids to get in front of others at the board, get certificates or not, and be better than they were yesterday! Teachers should also be obligated/ responsible for making other teachers just as good as you (the best).
The common core is about engagement and grit. More than just engagement with the teachers and student, but with task, text, world, etc. as well. Is repeatedly NOT walking away when "I don't
ge this!". Coaches of great athletes get this.
This work requires public acts of courage:
Reflections Day 2
Reflections Day 3